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Last fall, the Harvard janitors kicked off their contract campaign, naming it Unidad y Acción (Unity and Action). This past Thursday, they marched with students to University President Lawrence H. Summers’ mansion to demonstrate this unity. Together we demanded a just contract, complete with significant wage raises and affordable health benefits. Now, in the face of Harvard’s obstinacy and arrogance at the bargaining table, janitors—with student support—are escalating their tactics and taking action to achieve all that has been fought for over the last three years...
...school has a total of about 16 contract employees and expects the wage proposals to cost about $28,000 next year—a number Director of Fiscal and Administrative Services Robert Gewecke says was relatively insignificant in light of the school’s $20 million budget...
Let’s Go’s current contract with St. Martin’s continues until 2006 and executives expect their relationship with St. Martin’s to continue beyond that...
...last Wednesday's board meeting, Viacom directors instructed the two to resolve their differences. Viacom issued a statement on Karmazin's contract, saying that "Mr. Redstone and Mr. Karmazin do not plan to address the issue any sooner than...
Every year in South Africa some 80,000 babies are born to die. They contract HIV from infected mothers, and without preventive treatment, they are doomed to a sickly descent into death. Half will die within a year of birth; most of the others will perish before they are five years...